den
to the United States about 1867 and homesteaded in
Saunders County, Nebraska, in 1869 The family went to
Loup County in 1882, where the father took a tree claim.
Mr. Johnson received his education in the Fremont Normal
College and the State University of Nebraska, and taught
in Loup County before he was elected County
Superintendent, He is a Republican and was Deputy
Postmaster at Taylor, Nebraska. Mr. Johnson was married
to Miss Viola Newbecker of Taylor in 1903. He was a
member of Company F of the Third Nebraska Volunteers in
the Spanish-American War and went to Florida with the
regiment.

G. A. EVANS was
born November 26, 1863, in Madison County, Iowa, where he
received his education in the public schools. He came to
Nebraska and located in Loup County in 1886 and took a
homestead in 1890. He was married to Miss Nettie Hooper
of Loup County in 1890 and they have four daughters. Mr.
Evans is a member of the People's Independent party and
has served the public as Road Supervisor, Deputy Sheriff
and is now serving his second term as Sheriff of Loup
County.

R. S. SCOFIELD
was born March 21, 1871, in O'Brien County, Iowa. His
parents moved to Brownville, Nebraska, in 1873. His
father served in the Civil War in an Indiana regiment for
three years. Mr. Scofield was educated in the Brownville
and Nemaha High Schools and was the founder and editor of
the "Johnson News" of Johnson, Nebraska, which he
published for ten years. He was married in 1892

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to Miss M. Melissa Minick of Nemaha, Nebraska,
and they have one son and one daughter. Mr. Scofield
settled in Loup County in 1901 and is editor of the Loup
County News. He is serving his first term as County
judge, having been elected by the Fusionists.

G. S. HENRY was
born April 17, 1873, in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania,
and removed to Adair County, Iowa, in 1877. Came to Loup
County, Nebraska, February 21, 1884. Mr. Henry received
his education in the schools at Cromwell and Fontanelle,
Iowa, and the district schools of Loup County, Nebraska.
He was married May 26, 1904, to Miss Myrtle B.
Messersmith of Taylor, Nebraska. He is a Republican in
politics and is serving his first term as Clerk of Loup
County. His father served in a Pennsylvania regiment
during the Civil War from 1863 to 1865.

H. E. CARTER was
born in Elmore, Vermont, January 22, 1848. He was
educated in the People's Academy at Morrisville, Vermont,
and came to Nebraska in 1885. By profession he is a
lawyer, and in 1878 and 1879 was State's Attorney for
Caledonia County, Vermont, and in 1880 and 1881 was a
representative in the Vermont Legislature. From 1886 to
1892 he was Attorney for Loup County, which office he is
filling at the present time. In 1896 he was Mayor of
Tekamah, Nebraska.

L. M. MOULTON
was born in Woodford County, Illinois, November 19, 1839.
He came to Franklin County, Nebraska, in 1871 and was one
of the founders of Bloomington. Nebraska. In 1883 he
moved to Loup County. He graduated from Eureka College of
Woodford County, Illinois, in 1860, admitted to the bar
in Nebraska June 4 1874. In May, 1861, he married Miss
Permelia Clingman of Woodford County, Illinois. Mr.
Moulton enlisted in Company B of the Eleventh Illinois
Infantry in September of 1861, but was discharged. He
enlisted again in 1864 and served until the close of the
war and was a participant in the Mobile campaign. In
Illinois he served as Police Judge and District
Prosecuting Attorney, and was Judge of Franklin County,
Nebraska, two terms; also served as Judge and Attorney of
Loup County, two terms in each office.

L. Q. BAILS was
born near Charlestown, Illinois, July 13, 1865. In 1878
his parents moved to Sarpy County, Nebraska, where they
lived until 1890, when they settled in Loup County. His
father was a mechanic in an Illinois regiment during the
Civil War. Mr. Bails homesteaded in Western Nebraska in
1886 and now owns a farm near Burwell, Nebraska. He was
educated in the public schools of Nebraska and the
Fremont Normal College of Fremont, Nebraska. He is a
Populist and served two terms as Treasurer of Loup
County.

A. S. MOON was
born in Schuyler County, New York, December 13, 1857,
received his education in the public schools and at the
Seminary of Starkey, New York. He came to what is now
Loup County, Nebraska, in 1877, then unorganized
territory. He studied law at Taylor, Nebraska, under the
instruction of attorneys of Ord, Nebraska, and was
admitted to the bar in 1887. Politically, he is a
Republican, and has been County Superintendent of Loup
County and County Attorney for two terms.

J. RUSHO, one of
the oldest settlers of Loup County, farmer and business
man, located in 1877, one hundred miles from Grand
Island, then the nearest town. The town of Taylor was
laid out by Mr. Rusho in November, 1883. He was born May
23, 1850, in West Bend, Wisconsin; moved to Rice Lake,
Minnesota, in 1863, and then to Nebraska. He received his
education in the public schools and Milton Academy of
Rock County, Wisconsin. Mr. Rusho was married, October 8,
1872, to Miss Josephine Murry of Delavan, Minnesota, and
they are the parents of nine children, eight of whom are
still living.

W. A. CLARK was
born May 12, 1854, on a farm at Walnut Postoffice,
Pennsylvania, where he received his education in the
public schools. He went to Illinois in 1855 and returned
to Pennsylvania in 1865 and later came to Nebraska, where
he is engaged in farming. He is a member of the People's
Independent party and is serving as Treasurer of Loup
County.